Table 2.
Conservation of presence of dAUG in 5′-ends of genes with sAUG in optimal versus suboptimal context, in genes with sAUG supported by a peptide sequence
| Codons | Conservation of presence of dAUG among these codons |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vertebrates |
Insects |
Yeast |
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| Optimal (%) | Suboptimal (%) | Optimal (%) | Suboptimal (%) | Optimal (%) | Suboptimal (%) | |
| 2–5 | 79.1 | 92.4*** | 78.3 | 85.3** | 92.3 | 100.0 |
| 2–10 | 79.0 | 91.7*** | 77.3 | 83.8*** | 88.3 | 100.0 |
| 2–20 | 83.6 | 93.6*** | 79.1 | 86.9*** | 88.2 | 94.3 |
| 2–100 | 95.1 | 95.3 | 94.0 | 95.7*** | 93.3 | 93.1 |
Asterisks denote significance of difference between optimal and suboptimal sAUG (chi-square test): ***P < 0.001; **P < 0.01; *P < 0.05.